Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said on Friday that midfielder Kevin De Bruyne will miss Saturday ’ s home English Premier League game against Arsenal .
The midfielder had picked up an injury on international duty with Belgium last weekend .
He was substituted in the second half of Belgium’ s 2 -1 UEFA Nations League defeat by England at Wembley last Sunday and then withdrew from the squad with an unspecified injury .
“ The squad has come back a little better than the previous time . Unfortunately , Kevin is out . But the rest of the players came back well ,” Guardiola told reporters .
“ I don’ t think it ’ s much . But the next games , I think , he will be out ,” added the Spaniard, on the extent of De Bruyne ’s injury.
“ But we will see day by day how he is going on. ”
Manchester City have a busy fixture list , hosting Porto in the UEFA Champions League group stage on Wednesday before a league trip to West Ham on the following Saturday .
They then travel to Marseille for another group stage game the Tuesday after .
( Reuters / NAN )
